The Modern-Post-Modern
There is a general claim towards following a philosophical ideal in many generations, there romanticists, rationalists, naturalists, modernists, and lately there has been the typical reactionary pull from being modern to being post-modern. Well I have decided to jump the gun in my reaction to the post-modern and label myself a nice hybrid of that and its predecessor. I am the modern-post-modern... or MoPoMo.
Modernists were stuck in the concept that everything could be valued and given a sense of being absolute. Post-Modernists throw out the baby with the bath water and claim that there is no absolute truth, no meta-narrative, language is a construct that has become a tool and in some cases perhaps deceived people.
Modernists had something right when they saw absolute truths in somethings. And Post-Modernists have something going when they have the ability to question that truth in search of something greater. But both of these are the typical extremes.
My proposal of being MoPoMo... Especially as a Christian. There are absolute truths in life, there is God. Granted I cannot prove his existence in a scientific way, but I can tell you that some things that have happened have chance of ever happening by scientific means either. But perhaps these truths we do encounter need to be brought into question to make them truly ours. The faith and beliefs of those who came before us cannot be ours unless we make them ours. To follow blindly will simply make us miss the beauty that surrounds everyday life if we do not take it in and try and understand it.
So I am MoPoMo, I have my absolute truths that I stand firm in, but at the same time before I believe it, I will seek out my understanding of it.